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ID: 7005728
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005728
Record Type:
administrative
Pinerolo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 44 53 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 44.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 007 21 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 7.3500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at the entrance to the Valle del Chisone at foot of Alps; belonged to Turin in 10th cen., to nearby Benedictine monastery in 1078; went to Savoy in 1246; occupied by French in 16th, 17th & 19th cen.
Names:
Pinerolo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Pignerol
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Piemonte
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Torino
(province) (
P
)
....................
Pinerolo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Savoie
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
............
Pinerolo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first documented in 996
town (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
............
is a rail junction
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for textiles, metal, chemicals, printing & food products
episcopal see (
C
)
............
established in 1748
prison center (
H
)
............
fortress was state prison for 17th-cen. enemies of Louis XIV, including "Man in Iron Mask" (as in novel by A Dumas père)
noble seat (
H
)
............
seat of the counts of Acaia, a subsidiary line of the House of Savoy, 1295-1418
Sources and Contributors:
Pignerol..........
[
GRLPSC
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Pinerolo..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Annuario Generale (1980)
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 454
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
151
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Annuario Generale (1980)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 454
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-124863
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
151
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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